Lists of popular search terms are so interesting because they provide a window into what's on the collective minds of the collective culture. The most insightful looks into that collective, I think, are the questions the society asks. Our society wants to know about sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Google's year-end Zeitgeist not only listed the most popular search terms, possibly who ask more naive or youthful questions (who is borat, who is hot, who is v, who is What is... 1. what is hezbollah 2. what is carisoprodol 3. what is acyclovir 4. what is alprazolam 5. what is tramadol 6. what is ajax 7. what is hydrocodone 8. what is vicodin 9. what is xenical 10. what is xanax Searchers looking for how to do something, if we're presumptive (and we are) is definitely a younger group, most likely adolescents...well, except for the top query, "how to refinance." These searchers (seekers) saw The Fast and the Furious: scream, how to levitate, how to define: and then term you want defined) seem to be grownups learning to cope in an entirely different world. For instance, when Dad hears the hot new Nelly Furtado song "Promiscuous Girl" blasting out from his daughter's bedroom, he may ask himself, "doesn't 'promiscuous' mean the same thing it always did?" And so, the most sought after definition is for the word 'here. Tag: Add to Del.icio.us | Digg | Reddit | Furl Bookmark Murdok:
2006's Most Questionable Search Queries
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